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USING THIS TAG IS NOT THE SAME THING AS ASKING ON STACK OVERFLOW. YOU ARE ON META STACK EXCHANGE, WHERE MOST PROGRAMMING QUESTIONS ARE OFF-TOPIC. Questions specific to stackoverflow.com should be asked on meta.stackoverflow.com; such questions will be closed here. This is for questions about the Stack Overflow site that still relate to the SE network as a whole. Questions about Stack Overflow (the company) should be tagged [company] instead.

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What common objections will I meet when evangelizing Stack Overflow?

You lack the personal knowledge to confidently answer questions. You lack the experience and practical application to ask your own. Yet, you are learning by reading the real world questions and their …
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Are there any legitimate reasons for adding more than one answer to a question?

I do this with some regularity. If each answer provides a distinct method it is arguable that separating them allows the community to vote for the one that is better rather than voting for an omnibus …
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Reason for deletion of good answers from the developer

FAQ: What kind of behavior is expected of users?: If a large percentage of your posts include a mention of your product or website, you're probably here for the wrong reasons. Our advertising …
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Tag rename request: mathematica to wolfram-mathematica [closed]

Since the vast majority of Mathematica users have moved to the dedicated site many of the remaining uses of mathematica are incorrect. I frequently retag questions that are tagged mathematica when th …
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What tags generate the most reputation?

zenpoy's answer is great, except that I'm more fascinated by the less popular tags. Running his query with a threshold of 2000 gives these as the top results: tips-and-tricks 10.0542 pol …
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Normalize [firefox] versioning tags

Since it appears that the non-hyphenated tags do not have synonyms defined, you could try doing this grass-roots style by tagging a few questions with the hyphen form, and then proposing the old tag a …
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Kill the [bugs] tag?

On my site, Mathematica.SE, we use the bugs tag exclusively for bugs in the framework (Wofram Mathematica) itself. This serves us well. However since "bugs" is rather generic we do have to retag a f …
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